vanity press

See also Edward Helmore for The Guardian: ‘The final act’: fears US journalism crisis could destabilize 2024 election and Jack Shafer for Slate: The New Vanity Press Moguls.

June’s novel, “Pepsi-Cola Addict,” was published by a vanity press that has since gone defunct.

Dietz returned to Holden’s orbit in person in 1987, collaborating on a scathing anti-religion book called “Creation/Evolution Satiricon: Creationism Bashed,” published through a vanity press Holden operated to sell a tourism guide.

Wikipedia is committed to the notion of an encyclopedia, a written compendium of important human information—not a directory, a soapbox, a vanity press, or anything else the site has pledged not to be.

Maybe that was for the best, but on the other hand, why not set him up with a ghostwriter and a vanity press and let the yarns rip?